VietnamDuality

The Project born from the observation, colour contrast, emotional, intímate and loud travel all around Vietnam and Camboya

The feeling to be in a complete different reality, try to abstract myself and captate directly the life of this side of the world.

Suddenly i see happyness and despear, misery with hope, freedom and discipline…. Two sides of the same coin.

Broken dreams? Being a child “not yet”

Even when your surround scream to you that your dream to be an ingenier is far away, even utopic…

The Young girl that as a model play in front of my camera dreaming to be apreciate by her beauty….

The Project is developed in photographs transfer to plexiglass, double exposure that in the transparency aloud us to get two points of view,and even togheter become a new tridimensional object.

EDITION V/V

Subjects

1-Hope boy: In a separate corner between Vietnam and Camboya, the touching generousity of a street living boy that after i give him a coin try to gift to me his only property,a dragonfly that hang trough his fingers to care about the skin deseases make me think in Hồ Chí Minh, Spiritual leader of the country, already a pop icon used by the govern for all purposes, from ethic to comercial, his essence rapresented even in “esencial” oil bottles..

2-Hope Girls: it’s just enough go out of the city to find kids trying to sell to you whatever product, dealing ina very adult way prices and discounts.Insisting as only the child inconcience can be… Mature? Childhood? When you see in the country side toys staying alone abandoned on the side of the rice fields i htink: where is the “no return” point?

3- Faith: At Danang, in the center of the country, we had the chance to visit the highest pagoda in Vietnam and go inside the temple; suddenly we get in contact with the new generations of monks, childrean that parents introduce there not specifically for religión but because they can have there the best education possible, uniforms almost militar that make me note the Vietnam flag hanging everywhere, even in the religious places..

The alone image of my mini-monk was clasified finalist in the PhotoAsia context 2014.

4- Religion: Once the kids finish their education on the temple, they have the chance to decide even to stay in the temple and become monks, or go backto real life. In case they decide to stay inside, the get isolated from the outside world, and meditation become their day by day. A “jail” that transform them in prisioner of the religión, when faith oficially get transform in religión.

5- Dream boy: in the northo of the copuntry we are invited to a boat rip trough some caves, a Little “canoa” with a Young boy driver dreaming to go to the big city and become an ingenier, and perhaps let his live in the fisherman town.

6-Dream Girl: just crossing to Camboya, in a floting house, a girl play with her pitón in front of the camera just for few coins, as a top model dreaming also to change in to a better future.

The project include 20 different "coins" subject are:

Hope boy, hope girls, the dreamer, the dreamer girl, faith, religion, boy and cage, boy and toy, invasion, liberation, family, city&village, tradition, energy, fashion, history, progress, nature, nutrition, temple.